Comment on Ripple is officially open-sourceparentComments−maaku12yRipple-the-payment-method is about routing through directed networks. Merkle trees are not really related to the payment mechanism at all.−ghshephard12yFrom the article:"Our consensus process uses peering ... instead of mining. The ledger is a data structure that describes the current state of the network as a merkle tree"−delinka12yAnd still, merkle trees are not really related to the payment mechanism.
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Ripple-the-payment-method is about routing through directed networks. Merkle trees are not really related to the payment mechanism at all.
From the article:
"Our consensus process uses peering ... instead of mining. The ledger is a data structure that describes the current state of the network as a merkle tree"
And still, merkle trees are not really related to the payment mechanism.